Man I have no clue either, my latest bids got refused because of constant new replies. Then time was up. Very curious :)

Yes, John, is there any chance to turn off this annoying Warning - while you were reading 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.? It totally screwed last seconds bids :'( I think it would be good idea to turn off this feature by default for auction threads.

I don't feel so bad missing out this auction now. My max bid would of been 45. I've been sad the past few days because I wouldn't have been able to convert fiat to BTC in time. The last few mins was totally intense to watch. And I totally agree, there need to be a better system for auctions.

Man I have no clue either, my latest bids got refused because of constant new replies. Then time was up. Very curious :)

Yes, John, is there any chance to turn off this annoying Warning - while you were reading 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.? It totally screwed last seconds bids :'( I think it would be good idea to turn off this feature by default for auction threads.

Man I have no clue either, my latest bids got refused because of constant new replies. Then time was up. Very curious :)

Yes, John, is there any chance to turn off this annoying Warning - while you were reading 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.? It totally screwed last seconds bids :'( I think it would be good idea to turn off this feature by default for auction threads.

Profile > look and layout preferences > [] Don't warn on new replies made while posting.

Well organised John. Anyone know are there any further 10GHz blade auctions planned? Wondering how confident bidders are on the difficulty continuing to be favourable long enough to have made a modest ROI on these.. Will ASICs being delivered raise the difficulty 10x or is it less than this?

Man I have no clue either, my latest bids got refused because of constant new replies. Then time was up. Very curious :)

Yes, John, is there any chance to turn off this annoying Warning - while you were reading 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your post.? It totally screwed last seconds bids :'( I think it would be good idea to turn off this feature by default for auction threads.

You can turn this off by yourself in settings.

Yes, I did now :) But isn't it good will to warn about it in OP at least?

Well organised John. Anyone know are there any further 10GHz blade auctions planned? Wondering how confident bidders are on the difficulty continuing to be favourable long enough to have made a modest ROI on these.. Will ASICs being delivered raise the difficulty 10x or is it less than this?

50 10 gh blades should change the diff at all considering they were used up to this point :P

At worst, I feel like the hardware value if received, could auction on something like ebay for more than the btc equiv here. I'm mining with it though

I suggest the next auction should take place in a dedicated IRC channel, where a bot keeps track of the bidders with the highest bid, and bidders post bids in a standard format, so the bot can easily recognize them. Like:

2@48,1@50,1@51

would bid on a total of 4 devices at an average price of 49.25 BTC per device.

In a separate IRC channel, the bot could keep posting the current book of the highest bidders, for example every 10 seconds (perhaps every 1 second when the end nears), and no one else is allowed to write in this channel.

I suggest the next auction should take place in a dedicated IRC channel, where a bot keeps track of the bidders with the highest bid, and bidders post bids in a standard format, so the bot can easily recognize them. Like:

2@48,1@50,1@51

would bid on a total of 4 devices at an average price of 49.25 BTC per device.

In a separate IRC channel, the bot could keep posting the current book of the highest bidders, for example every 10 seconds (perhaps every 1 second when the end nears), and no one else is allowed to write in this channel.

+1 also i think registering bidders is smarter so we dont get phony bids

Well organised John. Anyone know are there any further 10GHz blade auctions planned? Wondering how confident bidders are on the difficulty continuing to be favourable long enough to have made a modest ROI on these.. Will ASICs being delivered raise the difficulty 10x or is it less than this?

50 10 gh blades should change the diff at all considering they were used up to this point :P

At worst, I feel like the hardware value if received, could auction on something like ebay for more than the btc equiv here. I'm mining with it though

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

Well organised John. Anyone know are there any further 10GHz blade auctions planned? Wondering how confident bidders are on the difficulty continuing to be favourable long enough to have made a modest ROI on these.. Will ASICs being delivered raise the difficulty 10x or is it less than this?

50 10 gh blades should change the diff at all considering they were used up to this point :P

At worst, I feel like the hardware value if received, could auction on something like ebay for more than the btc equiv here. I'm mining with it though

The blades are _new_ blades, not used.

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oh, coolio, well still its not that much hashpower, maybe a 2-4% increase

It was a bit like a hurricane towards the end but i'm ok with that it's a part o f the community fun =) I must give a shout out to the organizers they have done a great job! I'm happy to found this forum!

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

GOD HOW SILLY I WAS. *facepalm*

Thanks!

I can imagine the stress of all those waiting eyes. Bidding is over, relax people. Take a drink and thanks again John.

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

Don't forget- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

GOD HOW SILLY I WAS. *facepalm*

Thanks!

If everyone bids 'honestly' or there are no bidding below the minimum, this would work. Otherwise, John still have to parse through the whole thing.

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

Don't forget- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first

Yup, he'll need to do some backtracking and pop some items from his stack :)

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

GOD HOW SILLY I WAS. *facepalm*

Thanks!

If everyone bids 'honestly' or there are no bidding below the minimum, this would work. Otherwise, John still have to parse through the whole thing.

John, wouldn't it be less work if you counted from last valid bidding post backwards? :)I'm only guessing you're working your way through a lot of too low bids. But probably with good reason :)Anyway thanks for the massive work.

Don't forget- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first

Yup, he'll need to do some backtracking and pop some items from his stack :)

It is very simple. Place bid on top of existing one.

If you want absolutely no brainer Imagine this: whoever bids less is a winner, so lowest bids go on top.

Could of bought 10Gh/s in GPUs for that much. (I know it uses way more power)

I'm honestly interested in this, I tried to work it out. Wouldn't you need about 20-24 GPU's tied to 4 or more motherboards with several PSU's? I worked out a 10GH/s rig at around $10,000.

Am I way off?

Using HD 7950s @ 600 MH/s card @ $450 card(this includes all supporting hardware such as MB, PSU, risers, etc) and the blade @ 12GH/s(overclocked) you're looking at roughly $9,000 to get an equivalent setup in GPUs. I'm sure some of this is off a bit(probably stuff 6 cards into a board with a lower cost/card) but it is a rough estimate.

Using HD 7950s @ 600 MH/s card @ $450 card(this includes all supporting hardware such as MB, PSU, risers, etc) and the blade @ 12GH/s(overclocked) you're looking at roughly $9,000 to get an equivalent setup in GPUs. I'm sure some of this is off a bit(probably stuff 6 cards into a board with a lower cost/card) but it is a rough estimate.

Keep in mind you can resell the GPUs when you are done..

I wonder what the GPU market will look like after everyone who buys ASICS dumps their GPUs. Wonder if I can get some cheap for gaming. :)

Using HD 7950s @ 600 MH/s card @ $450 card(this includes all supporting hardware such as MB, PSU, risers, etc) and the blade @ 12GH/s(overclocked) you're looking at roughly $9,000 to get an equivalent setup in GPUs. I'm sure some of this is off a bit(probably stuff 6 cards into a board with a lower cost/card) but it is a rough estimate.

Keep in mind you can resell the GPUs when you are done..

I wonder what the GPU market will look like after everyone who buys ASICS dumps their GPUs. Wonder if I can get some cheap for gaming. :)

We make up a tiny portion of the GPU market. You can get some cheap HD 7970s though on eBay if you are willing to take the risk of someone shipping a DOA card. I bought a number of HD 5970s on eBay for $50-100 less than what people wanted on forums and easily $200 less than what Newegg wanted.

I wish the guys behind the auction disqualifies WinVery.com and sells it to whoever is next in line. That would go to show not to bid if you don't want the items. I'm not even close to be next in line so this is not posted with an hidden agenda. I just unlike this method and wish the forum to be a cool place.

Do we know yet whether there's going to be another auction anytime soon? I just barely missed this one...

During the auction they mentioned that next one will be a loooong wait for. Hope they are bluffing =) Just a marketing attempt, it's fine by me , i forgive them if they put up another auction =) hehe Or just send me one *i wish*

I wish the guys behind the auction disqualifies WinVery.com and sells it to whoever is next in line. That would go to show not to bid if you don't want the items. I'm not even close to be next in line so this is not posted with an hidden agenda. I just unlike this method and wish the forum to be a cool place.

I wish the guys behind the auction disqualifies WinVery.com and sells it to whoever is next in line. That would go to show not to bid if you don't want the items. I'm not even close to be next in line so this is not posted with an hidden agenda. I just unlike this method and wish the forum to be a cool place.

Doing so would be a breach of the auction rules, in my opinion, as they didn't state that reselling was not allowed. If they didn't want people to resell units, they should have specified this in the auction rules.

I wish the guys behind the auction disqualifies WinVery.com and sells it to whoever is next in line. That would go to show not to bid if you don't want the items. I'm not even close to be next in line so this is not posted with an hidden agenda. I just unlike this method and wish the forum to be a cool place.

By cool you obviously mean fascist.

You mean Toyota when they released the LFA? Stopped speculation on it, great idea for a $300k+ supercar.